LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil and charcoal over traces of pencil on board

Measurements:

25.51 in. (64.80 cm.) (height) by 19.76 in. (50.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed J.F.RAFFAËLLI (lower left)

Exhibited:

Paris, 35 boulevard des Capucines, La 6eme Exposition de Peinture par Mlle. Mary Cassatt, MM. Degas, Forain, MM. Gauguin, Guillaumin, Mme. Berthe Morisot, MM. Pissarro, Raffaëlli, Rouart, Tillot, Eug. Vidal, Vignon, Zandomeneghi, 1881, no. 122; Paris, 28 bis, Avenue de l'Opera, J.F. Raffaëlli, 1884; Paris, Exposition Universelle, 1889 (lent by Albert Wolff); Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Jean-François Raffaëlli, 1909, no. 189 (lent by Madame Paul Errera)

Literature:

La Vie Moderne, Paris, April 16, 1881, illustrated; Arsène Alexandre, Jean-François Raffaëlli, Paris, 1909, opposite p. 86.; John Rewald, History of Impressionism, New York, 1973, illustrated p. 434; B. Schinman Fields, Jean-François Raffaëlli (1850-1924): The Naturalist Artist, Ann Arbor, 1979, p. 186, 439, illustrated, fig. 50; Fronia E. Wissman, "Realists among the Impressionists," The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886, exh. cat., San Francisco, 1986, p. 338, fig. 1, illustrated; Polly Sartori, "Jean-François Raffaëlli: A Unique Voice in the Crowd," Twenty-First Perspectives on Nineteenth Century Art, Essays in Honor of Gabriel P. Weisberg, eds. Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Laurinda S. Dixon, Newark, 2008, pp. 231-7, illustrated pl. 9; Marnin Young, "Heroic Indolence: Realism and the Politics of Time in Raffaëlli's Absinthe Drinkers," Art Bulletin, vol XC, no. 2, June 2008, p. 254, illustrated p. 255, fig. 22

Provenance:

Albert Wolff (by 1889); Paul Errera, Brussels (by 1909; by descent to the late owner); The Estate of Gabrielle Oppenheim-Errera, Princeton, New Jersey (and sold, Christie's, New York, May 6, 1998, lot 136, illustrated); Acquired at the above sale